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Archive for April 10th, 2008

Reservations are here to stay

Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Supreme Court judgement on the OBC reservation issue should not surprise anyone. After all, the Supreme Court’s job isn’t to make laws but merely to ascertain whether existing laws were broken. And in the present case, the Supreme Court decided that nothing in the Indian Constitution prevents Arjun Singh from adding a 27% quota [...]

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More on the previous topic

Posted in libertarianism, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Eugene Volokh writes about a hypothetical scenario involving a mixed-race couple in the photography incident:
The desire to prevent race discrimination should no more dissolve your right to be free from being compelled to speak (here, to create an artistic work) than it should dissolve the right to express bigoted views, to choose members of a racist [...]

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